there are black voters, they're distinct groups inamerica. i raise all of that to ask whether or not disintegration means disunity. >> it doesn't have to mean disunity, i certainly hope it doesn't. i don't -- what i'm trying to do here is not to draw lines. i'm just trying to see things clearly, so we could work on the right problems and work on the right problems in the right way. so, no, it doesn't have to mean disunity. it does have to mean a certain shift in the way we think about ourselves and the way we think about our anybodies and in the way we think about african-americans or black people in the country in general. >> i think one of the reasons, the most recent, the most contemporary reason why folks think there's a black vote as opposed to black voters is given -- given -- is based upon how we turned out in record numbers, pretty monolithicly for barack obama during the campaign. we'll get to that in a second. that's the most reason evidence that people think we're a mon lith inside america. this book tries to break that down with f